Arts and Crafts/Rodel Dining Room Table

this is really beautiful!!! Welcome to LJ’s!!!!!!!!!!!!

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This is a very nice table. I like it. Magnificent wood wise and craftmanship wise. Well done. Welcome to LJ’s!

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Nice work. It looks a lot like the Rodel table on page 17 of the Taunton publication “In the Craftsman Style”. I made a facsimile of the Rodel book case in that same picture several years ago. I really like the style. The craftsmanship looks superb.

Thanks for sharing.

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Very nice looking table and well executed. Thanks for sharing.

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Welcome to LJs…!
Great job. Superbly built executive desk. I like Kevin Rodel’s contemporary furniture designs very much.
Thanks for sharing.
Take care and work safe.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

Nice looking table, good job

-- Glenn, New Mexico

Exquisite detail and design! You did a beautiful job on this piece. Thank you for posting.

God Bless
tom

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Beautiful lines, an elegance with simplicity.

Welcome aboard, you will enjoy it here

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Great looking table. Kevin Rodel builds some incredible pieces & you have done him well!

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Love the table but where did you buy that Windsor chair?!

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Very nice work. Are the chairs next?

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Chuck, what a terrific table – the design is very appealing and the execution looks to be right up there too.

-- Phil in British Columbia

Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Absolutely beautiful. What is the darker part at the top of the legs?

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very niice I really like the design and shape of this table .It will still be beautiful in 200 years time not like the modern ikea rubbish that will befit for the bin in less than ten. Talking of ten call it ten out of ten for preformance and looks.kindest regards Alistair

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Thanks for the kind words, folks.

The darker part on the legs is a walnut inlay.

-- Chuck, Pullman, WA

Chuck,
Tell me about the breadboard ends and the exposed splines; do they extend through, or are they just for show? I wish I had seen that before building my wifes desk.
Robb

Very nicely done.

I’d be proud to have it in my own home.

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Hi Topapilot,

The breadboard end is attached with a classic multiple tenon construction, with a shoulder running the width of the table.

The exposed spline is glued long-grain to long-grain to the tabletop proper, with a recess in the breadboard so that the spline can move with moisture as the tabletop expands and contracts across its width. This is a trick from Greene and Greene furniture—these things are not structural.

Because I’m an amateur, I had a season to let the top sit in the shop and expand to its maximum width during our rainy season, the spring. I then trimmed it to be flush with the end of the breadboard, so I’m pretty sure that it will only shrink now. But if it doesn’t, there’s still some ‘root’ to the exposed spline so it won’t be a big deal. A more pro approach would be to run the breadboard out past the table width and do a smarter and more timely job.

-- Chuck, Pullman, WA

Very nice craftsmanship. Thanks for posting.

-- Dennis Zongker

Very nice table indeed!

-- Julian, Park Forest, IL

Wow….....

great looking table….good job

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Beautiful dining room table.

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